THE PRESIDENCY: The Big Housecleaning

President Nixon was in seclusion last
week. Well, not quite. While isolated at Camp David, far from
importunate visitors, children with gifts, and ambassadors with
credentials, he received a steady stream of Washington officials
delivered by helicopter: Cabinet chiefs, agency heads, White House
aides. In pursuit of his plan to shake up the stubborn, slow-moving
federal bureaucracy, he was starting with his own men. He wanted their
ideas on how to make the Government more responsive to presidential
command; he also wanted to discuss their futures, which in some cases
are...